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Its a...uh...flying triangle! Ed sent in word that several Dearborn (Mi) High School students have created an "antigravity beamship." Videos the students present look interesting and a local Dearborn newspaper recently carried a news story on their science project. Hrmm...the news of an antigravity device must be too hot because the article has since disappeared! doo dee doo doo (Google cache of the story can be found here.) If the students would have done a bit of Googling, they could have saved the $300-400 they spent since flyingtriangles aren't unique. Wired News even had an article earlier this year on the so-called antigravitational "lifters".

Little is known about the science on exactly how lifters work and most claims receive a standard form letter reply from NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project. The letter berates most of the researchers for sensationalism and promises to ignore claims unless credible research subject to peer review is conducted. Even with the claims of hokey science, I would think there would be some mega-company interested in what is going on. Come on, NASA is interested in laser powered paper airplanes and Boeing seems to be dabbling in antigravity research. Are lifters too Art Bellish even for them?